Forest And Bird - Latest News [Page 34]
Game council undermines conservation
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 12:45 pm | Forest And Bird
The government’s announcement today that a statutory Game Animal Council will be established confirms Forest & Bird’s fears that conservation of our forests and native wildlife will be undermined. The management on public conservation land of ... More >>
Dairy industry keeps on polluting
Friday, 18 March 2011, 1:37 pm | Forest And Bird
The latest snapshot of the Dairying and Clean Streams Accord highlights the continuing failure of the dairy industry to meet the majority of targets set for 2007, Forest & Bird said today. “We are eight years into the accord and in the 2009/10 snapshot, ... More >>
Forest & Bird calls for halt to Mackenzie tenure review
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 1:29 pm | Forest And Bird
Nature conservation group Forest & Bird is concerned that high country tenure review for two properties in the Mackenzie Country will scupper collaborative work in the region that has just started. Two high country pastoral leases are currently proposed ... More >>
New Zealanders urged to support wild Mokihinui
Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 2:05 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird today launched a campaign to give New Zealanders the chance to urge Meridian Energy to withdraw its proposal to build an 85-metre-high dam on the pristine Mokihinui River on the West Coast. More >>
Coastline up for grabs in aquaculture legislation
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 12:36 pm | Forest And Bird
Our wilderness coastline is under attack from the government’s plans to speed up the development of marine farms, Forest & Bird said today. People concerned about protecting our marine environment and coastal views have only until Friday, February ... More >>
Forest & Bird disgusted by fur seal clubbing
Monday, 6 December 2010, 3:07 pm | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird is disgusted and disappointed by today’s news that 23 fur seals have been found clubbed to death at the popular tourist viewing spot at Ohau Point near Kaikoura. More >>
Coastal marathon for marine sustainability
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 1:19 pm | Forest And Bird
A deepening anxiety about the decline of our coastlines and fisheries and a desire to make a difference is driving 26-year-old Alex Asher on a 2,400 kilometre journey around the North Island’s east coast. More >>
Mackenzie meeting seeks new way forwards
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 2:16 pm | Forest And Bird
A symposium starting tomorrow on the future of the Mackenzie Country offers the chance to kickstart efforts to find less confrontational ways of managing one of our iconic landscapes. More >>
Kokako nesting in Waitakeres after 80 year gap
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 3:00 pm | Forest And Bird
Threatened North Island kokako have been discovered nesting in Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges for the first time in 80 years. More >>
Eradicate wild kiwifruit vines
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:50 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird today recommended the eradication of wild kiwifruit vines from the Bay of Plenty region. The call comes as the number of kiwifruit orchards confirmed to be infected with the PSA ( Pseudomonas syringae pathovar actinidiae) vine disease ... More >>
Labour weekend spotlight on saving the Mokihinui
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 11:28 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is joining with Whitewater NZ over Labour weekend to highlight the threat to the pristine beauty and endangered wildlife of the Mokihinui River from Meridian Energy’s planned hydro dam. State-owned Meridian was granted resource ... More >>
Forest & Bird’s new Ruapehu lodge opened
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 1:31 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird’s new Ruapehu lodge was officially opened today by the Governor-General, Sir Anand Satyanand, and Paramount Chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa, Sir Tumu Te Heuheu. More >>
Kakariki scoops Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 11:12 am | Forest And Bird
New Zealand’s bright green parrot – the kakariki – has won this year’s Forest & Bird poll for Bird of the Year. More >>
Bladder kelp quota should be zero
Thursday, 23 September 2010, 4:56 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird believes Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley is endangering coastal marine ecosystems by announcing today commercial harvesting quotas for bladder kelp. More >>
Forest & Bird welcomes water consensus
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 1:53 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird welcomes the report of the Land and Water Forum (LWF) released today. More >>
Commissioner right: conservation should come first
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 12:54 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird welcomes the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s report about mining on conservation land as a reasoned and rational way of ensuring mining does not compromise conservation. More >>
Forest & Bird disappointed at Nevis River appeal
Thursday, 16 September 2010, 9:30 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is disappointed that Pioneer Generation is appealing the decision by a special tribunal to forbid dams on the Nevis River in Central Otago. More >>
Less talk, Vote Morepork
Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 4:54 pm | Forest And Bird
If you are still asking yourself who to vote for in Forest and Bird Bird of the Year poll, stop asking ‘Who? Who?’, vote Ruru. More >>
Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year poll opens
Monday, 13 September 2010, 10:37 am | Forest And Bird
Musician Don McGlashan and filmmaker Taika Waititi will be trumpeting the virtues of their favourite bird in Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year poll which opens today (September 13th). More >>
Forest & Bird join artists to save the Mackenzie
Friday, 20 August 2010, 3:17 pm | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird and a group of prominent New Zealand artists came together today to highlight the growing development threats to the Mackenzie Country, one of the jewels in the crown of our natural heritage. More >>
